By using a hashtag such as #PhDChat for a post on dissertation writing, you increase its discoverability, since other users will then find it if they search for the term after the hashmark.
Hashtags are especially useful for helping others find a post on a particular topic. A webpage’s metatags describe its content for search engines, while hashtags are used on Twitter and other social media platforms. In the library world, tags are known as “subject headings”, but we’ll come back to that later. Other names for tags are labels or keywords. Tags let you describe your documents both in terms of their contents and other attributes. Instead of just relying on file and folder names, you make your later searches easier by using tags to describe and group your materials. Years later it can be difficult if not impossible to remember what this abbreviation stood for, especially if you’ve long since forgotten that “DM” stands for “Discrete Mathematics” and that you created this folder for work done during the second semester of the academic year. For example, you might place a research paper in the folder “DM 2” on your computer. A document, for example, will often only be stored in one place, whether it’s a physical box or folder or a digital one. This type of pigeonholing tends to reduce the complexities of an item (or a person) down to one characteristic. We like to put documents – and people – in boxes. Image credit: Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
Think outside the box and develop your own system of keywords or labels
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